a. and sb. [ad. Gr. ἐγκωμιαστικ-ός, f. ἐγκωμιάζειν: see ENCOMIAST.]
A. adj. That conveys or confers an encomium; laudatory, commendatory, eulogistic.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., I. iv. 75. To frame some encomiasticke speech upon this our Metropolis.
1630. Brathwait, Eng. Gentlewom. (1641), 306. Doting on nothing more than these Encomiasticke bladders of their desertlesse praises.
1795. R. Anderson, Brit. Poets, 448. An Ode, which, though less elevated, has some fine encomiastic strains.
1841. Hor. Smith, Moneyed Man, I. v. 154. I made a slight encomiastic allusion to Fanny Hartopp.
† B. sb. A eulogistic discourse or composition; a formal encomium. Obs.
1632. B. Jonson, Magn. Lady, I. vi. (1640), 16. I thanke you Mr. Compasse, for your short Encomiastick.
1644. John Carter, Nail hit on the head (1647), 39. A sumptuous and magnificent Sepulchre … and upon it written Encomiastiques, the high praises of his vertue.
1707. Hearne, Collect. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), II. 25. Sends an ‘Encomiastic’ to be prefixed to Hudson’s edition of Dionysius.
18[?]. Moore, Devil among Schol., 584. Wise Encomiastics Upon the Doctors and Scholastics.
